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The French painter, printmaker, illustrator, art theorist and teacher André Lhote (1885–1962) pursued artistic creation alongside reflection on art and its teaching. His position on Cubism was accompanied by reservations about what he considered too abstract: he sought to preserve a connection with classical painting, both through subject matter and through compositional rigour. Works listed by the Art Institute of Chicago include Port of Bordeaux, dated 1914, and The Ladies of Avignon, dated around 1923.
Born in Bordeaux, he attended decorative arts classes at the city’s École des Beaux-Arts from the age of thirteen and joined a decorative sculpture studio. Financially supported by Gabriel Frizeau, he went to Paris in 1907 and presented three canvases there at the Salon d’Automne. In 1919, he began writing an art criticism column for La Nouvelle Revue française.
Teaching became a lasting part of his career: after teaching at various academies from 1918, he founded his own academy in 1922, at 18, rue d’Odessa, in Montparnasse, where he taught until the end of his life. He organised summer courses for his students at his house in Mirmande, in the Drôme. He also set out his ideas in works such as the Traité du paysage, published by Floury in 1939, and the Traité de la figure, published by the same publisher in 1950. In 1957, he created murals for the faculty of medicine in Bordeaux.
This profile brings together identity references for André Lhote and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
27 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Sotheby’s, DognyAuction, Kornfeld, Genève Enchères, Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, Germann, Piguet, Schuler. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Graphite on paper
Portrait cubiste de jeune fille aux tresses
mine de plomb sur papier
Catalogue period : 2025-12-08
Published result : 330 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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Öl auf Papier auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2025-06-25
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
View the lot at the auction house ↗Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland André Lhote 1885 - 1962 La vallée jaune signed A. Loth and dated 13 (lower right) oil on canvas 60 by 81 cm. 23½ by 31¾ in. Executed in 1913. The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Dominique Bermann Martin .
Catalogue period : 2023-12-05 — 2023-12-12
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : 15000 – 20000 CHF
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Watercolour on paper
Ansicht einer Kirche
Aquarell auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2022-12-12
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 700–1200
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Watercolour and pencil on paper
La tasse de thé, um 1914
Aquarell und Bleistift auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2022-06-22
Published result : 3711 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 1500–2000
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La Lampe - Objets de mélancolie
oil on canvas
Catalogue period : 2021-09-16
Published result : 26000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 15000
View the lot at the auction house ↗André Lhote 1885 - 1962 La Route à Gordes Oil on canvas Signed upper left 65 x 81 cm (unframed); 90 x 106 cm (framed) Executed in 1943 This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné currently being prepared by Dominique Bermann Martin and is accompanied by a certificate of authenti
Catalogue period : 2021-06-08 — 2021-06-15
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : 18000 – 22000 CHF
View the lot at the auction house ↗Oil on rough canvas
Catalogue period : 2020-09-17
Published result : 20000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 22500
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Gouache
Étude pour "La Conversation" (1933).
gouache
Catalogue period : 2019-11-08
Published result : 2200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3800
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La Lampe - Objets de mélancolie
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2019-06-13
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 20000
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Charcoal
Couple sur la plage
fusain
Catalogue period : 2017-12-14
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 600–800
View the lot at the auction house ↗Gouache
Nu assis.
gouache
Catalogue period : 2013-11-08
Published result : 3500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Oil on canvas
Vacances, um 1919
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2013-06-15
Published result : 155520 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 60000–80000
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Gouache
Paysage de Banlieue
gouache
Date to be documented
Published result : 6239 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
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Oil on canvas
Nature morte
huile sur toile
Date to be documented
Published result : 40000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 20000–30000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
View the lot at the auction house ↗Watercolour
Mélancolie
watercolour
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Bouquet de fleurs, 1911
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Nue allongée, 1928
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Pen-and-ink drawing.
Titania
Tintenfeder-Zeichnung.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Gouache
Sur la route de Roussillon"
gouache
Catalogue period : 2016-03-09
Published result : 4000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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Charcoal
Paysage
fusain
Catalogue period : 2019-09-25
Published result : 3000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 700–900
View the lot at the auction house ↗Watercolour over pencil
"Les Joueurs".
Aquarell über Bleistift
Date to be documented
Published result : 6000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 8000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Watercolour over an Indian ink pen drawing
Composition figurative.
Aquarell über Tuschfeder
Date to be documented
Published result : 2600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4000
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"Simone au fauteuil".
Öl auf Lwd
Date to be documented
Published result : 30000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 36000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Watercolour
Dorfpartie mit Spaziergängern auf einer Brücke.
Aquarell
Date to be documented
Published result : 3600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3300
View the lot at the auction house ↗These references are shown separately because of their attribution or lot composition. Each record states the reason.
Tuschfeder-Zeichnungen.
2 Blätter: Composition Cubiste
Tuschfeder-Zeichnungen.
Lot groupé — prix global
Date to be documented
Group lot — total price
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
View the lot at the auction house ↗SwissArtGallery documentary note based on the cited sources. Titles, media and qualifications are provided in the profile language; the original catalogue wording remains available in each record.
Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
